Short Biography
Pina Marziliano completed her B.Sc. Applied Mathematics in 1994 at the Université de Montréal, Canada and was awarded an NSERC scholarship for the M.Sc.Computer Science (Operations Research) in 1996 from the same university. In 2001 she completed her Ph.D in Communication Systems at EPFL, Switzerland. She then joined a start-up company Genimedia SA in Lausanne, Switzerland where her main task was to research and develop perceptual quality metrics for multimedia applications. In 2003, she became an Assistant Professor for the Information Engineering Division in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. She teaches Digital Signal Processing and supervises undergraduate and graduate students. Her research interests include: Biomedical Signal and Image Processing, Sampling Theory and Applications in Signal Processing, Communications and Life Sciences, Perceptual Quality Metrics for Multimedia, Watermarking/Data Hiding, Optimization Methods in Communication Systems.
In July 2006, she was seconded for one year to the International Relations Office of the University. She conceptualised and developed the Global Partnership Management and Analysis Tool (GPMAT) and served as an in-house consultant to advise on the teaching quality of overseas programmes and institutions, interacted with exchange partners and liaised with local and international faculty for international relations.
In 2007, she received the 2006 Best Paper Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society Awards Board for the paper Sampling Signals with Finite Rate of Innovation co-authored with Martin Vetterli and Thierry Blu which appeared in IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, Vol.50, June 2002. A patent for her work on sampling was granted in May 2006 and acquired by Qualcomm Inc in December 2007.
She has been involved in the organisation of many local and international conferences, in particular, she was the General Chair of the 9th International Conference on Sampling Theory and Applications in May 2011. She is an active member of the IEEE community in Singapore: Chair of the IEEE Singapore Section Women In Engineering from 2009-2010, Vice-Chair of the IEEE Signal Processing Chapter in Singapore, 2011; as well as in the IEEE Signal Processing Society: since 2009 she is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Signal Processing Letters and member of the Signal Processing Theory and Methods Technical Committee.